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On Monday, the partnership, which is made up of 60 different stakeholders, will announce a major new effort to turn around the educational outcomes for the poorest children in Albany. Years in the making, it will target children in Arbor Hill, West Hill and the South End. The Albany Promise, as...

Brenda Bailey, director of real estate development for Model Cities Community Development Corporation, said that while they could operate anywhere, the funding they receive, largely from the City of Saint Paul, focuses their work on one census tract, the area within a few blocks of Maxfield...

I am writing in response to “There is a duel within the war on poverty in Rockford” (May 20). While the decision to use performance management software for helping manage and track outcomes for homelessness programs can often be political in nature, I would like to reinforce that the most...

Birmingham is hoping to get a chunk of $110 million available through HUD's Choice Neighborhoods program. The housing authority is pursuing plans to replace the aging Loveman Village housing community with a new mixed-income community.

Clinton School student Heath Carelock of New Carrollton, Md., partnered with the Central Little Rock Promise Neighborhood (CLRPN) to explore trendsetting practices and strategies that teachers from participating Promise Neighborhood schools can use to support positive student achievement.

The path to school success and college is at the core of the Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood Planning Grant with the path beginning early in a child’s life. Discussion of those early learning experiences playing a key role in later academic and life success have been a major topic with the...

A small contingent of Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland staff, Cleveland City Councilwoman Phyllis Cleveland and others visited Washington D.C. recently, meeting with Northeast Ohio’s congressional delegation and with U.S. Department of Education officials on the Cleveland Central...

They were among 200 residents the CAMBA organization invited to come up with a wish-list of institutions, services and reforms they thought their community needed at the Flatbush Promise Neighborhood Initiative Town Hall Meeting on March 8, phase-one of a $500,000 planning grant the organization...

The city hired 32-year-old Davenport last month to head the City of Promise initiative, a federally funded, from-the-ground-up project that aims to guide underprivileged kids in Westhaven, the surrounding 10th and Page and Starr Hill neighborhoods and ultimately all of Charlottesville through...

“The majority of youth in the juvenile justice system have not committed serious violent crimes. They are children who made a mistake or are as noncompliant as teenagers often are,” said keynote speaker Angelique Kedem, director of the St. Paul Promise Neighborhood initiative. “We’re either...

The U.S. Education Department cited the group's holistic method — strengthening community bonds to ensure children complete college — as inspiration for the Promise Neighborhoods grants. Last year, United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County received a $24.6 million Promise Neighborhoods grant to...

A team of advocates started putting plans in motion. Then, in September 2010, the U.S. Department of Education offered grants to help communities create their own “Promise Neighborhoods” based on Canada’s approach. Parkside-Kenilworth was one of 21 communities across the country to win a...

Kids in New York City’s Flatbush neighborhood will be obtaining aid from a local nonprofit to help them navigate life successfully from birth to their first job after college. The nonprofit CAMBA is one of 15 organizations nationally to receive a Promise Neighborhood planning grant from the U.S....